panoramas posts

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 30th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Back in January, we wrote about an absolutely astounding photo of the Presidential Inauguration. The photo was stiched together from 100's of individual photos, made with a GigaPan device which controls the camera movements. Our buddies over at Engadget just took the GigaPan for a spin and made some of their own panoramic photos. The results are surprisingly good. They had some minor gripes with ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
Jan 24th, 2009 at 2:00PM: By now I'm sure you've seen your fair share of photo and video material of the inauguration of our 44th President. The picture you see above it probably no different from any of the other of 1000's made that day. There is however one big difference - it is a whopping 1,474 megapixels. For comparison - your home camera probably shoots in 7 or 8 megapixels. Of course, a massive photo is useless ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Aug 22nd, 2008 at 1:30PM: I've seen a lot of photos of this years Beijing Olympics, but none of them impressed me as much as this massive panoramic photo made by Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka. You'll need to be patient when the photo loads, on my fast connection it still took almost a minute. Once the counter reaches 100%, use your mouse to drag the picture around, for a 360 degree image of the men's 100 meter finals. ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Aug 2nd, 2008 at 11:00AM: One of the signs that you are flying too much, is when you can't sleep in your own bed without the soothing background noise of a jet engine, or when you find yourself looking out your bedroom window and feeling annoyed that all you see is the street, and not puffy clouds. If you fit that description, then I suggest checking out Holding Pattern "First Class". Holding Pattern is a screensaver for ...

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Jun 8th, 2007 at 6:52AM: 360Cities provides panoramic tours of several of the world's major cities. Mashed with Google Earth for easy searching, the site features panoramas of restaurants, landmarks, hotels, bars, shops, places for rent, and more. Currently, 360Cities currently features the following destinations:
Prague
Moscow
Venice
Vienna
LA
Belgrade
and Syria (I know it's not a city) ...

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
May 21st, 2007 at 6:48AM: I saw this image shortly after I woke up this morning, and it did several things:
It made me smile -- because it's beautiful.
It made me frown -- because I have to work indoors today.
It made me want to share it with you -- because it is, indeed, the coolest picture ever.
Tristan "Shu" Lebeschu is a photographer who makes "action panoramas." When you click over to check out the ...